Castle of Black Iron

As for the time being, Zhang Taixuan was shocked like how Zhang Tie was when he found that he was poisoned in Wild Lake Building.

‘Has Zhang Tie arranged moles in Embracing Tiger Mountain? Has the spirit long been poisoned by him? That’s impossible. Everything in Embracing Tiger Mountain is under my control and in the hand of the branch of YiYang City, Huaiyuan Palace. Zhang Tie was not responsible for arranging personnel affairs; how could there be his mole?’

‘Additionally, the spirit was served by my trusted subordinates, which had been checked strictly for more than one time in Embracing Tiger Mountain. Does it mean that Zhang Tie has controlled all the people who were in charge of food and drink check?’

Zhang Taixuan was confused. Additionally, he found that this Soul Leave appeared a bit different than that he knew.

Although being poisoned by this mutated Soul Leave, Zhang Taixuan was not in a deep coma; actually, except for losing his awareness, battle qi and spiritual energy, he found that he seemed…seemed…still being able to speak.

“Elder…Elder Mushen…what do you mean?” Zhang Taixuan’s asked and his heart raced as he still remained a bit calm apparently, adding, “If you want to be the clan head, I will abdicate it to you. No need to poison me…”

Zhang Tie shook his head as he moved his hand. Closely after that, a nano-bead was put on the table before rolling towards Zhang Taixuan.

It was the same one from the body of that late dare-to-die fighter in the underground cave who was subject to Zhang Taixuan’s order.

“Here you go…I’m returning it to you…”

The moment Zhang Taixuan caught sight of that nano-bead, a flurried eye light had flashed across his eyes; however, he didn’t admit it at all, “This is a nano-bead; however, it doesn’t belong to me. I wonder why Elder Mushen said its mine?”

“This nano-bead is from the dare-to-die fighter who was obedient to you no matter whether you will admit it or not!” Zhang Tie said without any emotional fluctuation after throwing a glance at the nano-bead in Zhang Taixuan’s hand, “You’re indeed meticulous. That day, you came to the underground mountain cave where I was detained after changing your look. You even wore a metal mask outside your disguising mask. Additionally, you scanned over me using that brilliant fingerstall which could give out blue ray. Were you looking for that immortal item? Hoho. I’ve really not imagined that that fingerstall was a treasure. You’re really meticulous. Previously, you always wore the fingerstall; this time, after finding that I have already survived back, you took off that fingerstall lest any trouble. However, do you think it’s useful to do that?”

Hearing Zhang Tie’s words, Zhang Taixuan became quiet for a few seconds during which period he just flickered his eyes. Then, he opened his mouth bitterly, “To tell you the truth, I’ve already lost it after you got lost. I’m still looking for it…”

“You’re really stubborn. As of now, you’re still fooling around. Do you think that I recognized you because of that fingerstall? Do you think that you could shirk off your responsibility in the excuse of losing that fingerstall?” Zhang Tie said as he shook his head, “You should know that no camouflage could lie to my eyes. That day, I just lay on the ground to wait for the culprit; unexpectedly, it was you. Although you had changed your skeleton and frame and covered your face by using disguising mask and metal mask even mix your body odor with a soul-meddling fantastic grass, all these were useless in front of my eyes. I had already known that it was you the moment you went off the doorsteps!”

“Actually, although you wear clothes, I could still see that red nevus under your armpit. Besides that space-teleportation equipment exclusive for provincial governor in your waist, I could see another space-teleportation equipment inside the muscles on your crus. It’s a quality pale golden nano-bead close to your shin. You cut open your muscles on your crus and foisted it in. After that, you recover the wound with a vial of senior recovery medicament, leaving no trace. You’ve already got this nano-bead when you came back to the ground from Earth-elements Realm before you scrambled for the Youzhou Provincial Governor. Am I right?”

Zhang Taixuan became stunned. Zhang Tie’s words broke his lies and disguise like a heavy hammer. Zhang Taixuan still wanted to urge something; however, Zhang Tie raised his arm to stop him as he watched Zhang Taixuan icily, saying, “If you deny it again, I will chop off your leg and take out that soul bead right away. I think that fingerstall is in the very nano-bead in your crus…”

Zhang Taixuan closed his eyes quietly for a few seconds. When he opened his eyes, he had already recovered his composure. He looked straight into Zhang Tie’s eyes as he burst out into laughter, louder and louder. Later on, the entire shrine palace was filled with his guffaw.

After guffawing, Zhang Taixuan looked at Zhang Tie with evident ambition and a bit madness in his eyes, saying, “Hmm, it’s me. The entire process is under my arrangement!”

“You’ve finally admitted it!” Zhang Tie lowered his eyes as he asked in a low tone, “Why? Why did you do that?”

“Hahaha, why?” Zhang Taixuan burst out into laughter as if he had heard something preposterous, “I’m the clan head; however, you could ask any one of Huaiyuan Palace who’s number one in Huaiyuan Palace; then, you will know whom they respect most. Of course, it’s the well-known Immortal Qianji. As a result, I, Zhang Taixuan, has become your foil. Across Taixia Country, numerous people know Immortal Qianji of Huaiyuan Palace; however, few people know Zhang Taixuan. You tell me why? I, Zhang Taixuan, was born a hero and would die dauntlessly. Why couldn’t I gain as much respect as you? Why couldn’t I promote to a shadow knight or a heavenly knight? Why couldn’t I win great honor from the rest of the world like you…”

“Therefore, you would sacrifice everyone else for the sake of your ambition?”

“All of the people in Huaiyuan Palace should be ready to sacrifice for the rise of Huaiyuan Palace. All the great figures in history have killed a multitude of people…” Zhang Taixuan said mercilessly.

Watching Zhang Taixuan, Zhang Tie realized that this was the real Zhang Taixuan. What Zhang Taixuan performed before was just to win the favor of people.

“Is that your reason?”

“Isn’t it persuasive?”

“What about Ma Aiyun? At that time, I was just an unknown member of Huaiyuan Palace; instead of being a knight. I didn’t pose any threat to you at that time. Why did you fix your eyes on me and Ma Aiyun?” Zhang Tie looked straight into Zhang Taixuan’s eyes aggressively.